Dark Furniture

Dark Wood furniture ranges and suppliers
The attraction of dark wood furniture is in the richness of colour and often the appeal of the grain as well.  Nowhere is this more prevalent than with mahogany, and we are pleased to stock the mahogany Pembroke range of bedroom furniture from Kettle Containers Ltd (kettle-containers.co.uk). This company, also known as Kettle Interiors, supplies several ranges to Right Price Furniture all of which are recognised for the quality of construction and finish.   

West Country suppliers Devonshire Pine Ltd also produce a range of dark furniture in hardwood, but this time it’s the more traditional oak.  Their Dark Oak range of bedroom furniture is made to the same style as the New Oak range.  Also from Devon is the Chunky Mocha range which offers both bedroom and living room furniture, this time made throughout from solid pine. PDF files of their ranges can be downloaded at devonshirepine.co.uk.   

Another supplier currently offering one pine and one hardwood range of dark furniture is PD Global.  This company has a growing diversity of ranges but its dark wood pine furniture is represented by the Bristol range of contemporary style bedroom furniture.  Details of forthcoming ranges from this company can be found at pdglobal.co.uk.  Its Richmond range of dark wood furniture is bedroom furniture in a sleek, contemporary style and is made from tropical hardwoods.   

Customers seeking dark wood furniture in a distressed finish will love the recently-introduced Radstock range from Suffolk-based Direct Forest Products.  This is bedroom furniture that has been made from reclaimed pine says DFP, resulting in intriguing marks and blemishes on the surface of the wood.   

If time is of the essence then the Vermont ranges of hardwood furniture from Core Products Ltd can be supplied direct to your door within days rather than weeks.  Core specialises in good quality self assembly furniture.  This offers the dual advantages of being cheaper than fully assembled ranges of comparable quality and, because it is compact, it can quickly be delivered by courier.

No overview of dark wood furniture would be complete without mentioning what is virtually the grandfather of the dark wood ranges, the delightfully retro-style Convex ranges of bedroom, living and dining room furniture from CPW or Country Pine Warehouse.  This company has a long experience of traditional pine furniture so the Convex range was something of a change of style but it has been consistently popular since its first introduction.

More about Dark Furniture
Dark furniture has a chequered history, perhaps more so than any other type of furniture.  Until the middle of the 17th Century the choice was virtually oak furniture or no furniture and oak furniture started in a light colour but rapidly darkened with age and use to become dark furniture. Then a new lighter style of furniture was introduced from the Continent that used veneers of walnut and other attractive timbers that were lighter than 'old oak' but still dark by today's standards.  

The meteoric rise (and enduring popularity) of mahogany in the 18th Century made dark furniture popular again and mahogany or dark oak furniture have ebbed and flowed in popularity right up to the present day.  

There are periods when light furniture has predominated, such as the heyday of pine in the 1960s, but today fashion and tastes are more individual than ever and dark furniture is a firmly established part of the furniture choices available.